Metairie Group Transportation: Veterans Boulevard Parades, Lafreniere Park, and Jefferson Parish Rules

Quotes we have sent across Louisiana start around $275–$400 an hour, which puts a typical four-hour night at $1,100–$1,625. Your price depends on the date, the city, how many hours you need, the bus and your group size.

Metairie is unincorporated, so Jefferson Parish departments control public parks, streets, and event approvals; there is no City of Metairie permit office. A Lafreniere Park reservation or a parish street permit governs only what it names and does not extend into New Orleans, where Orleans Parish rules apply from the 17th Street Canal eastward. Write the correct parish on every stop.

Parades roll along Veterans Memorial Boulevard on multiple days in February or March and close the cross streets for hours, cutting the main east-west route through the community. Choose pickup points that do not require crossing the route during the parade window, check the schedule for your date, and confirm how the provider prices a detour via I-10 or Airline Drive.

Yes, and many do, but the Orleans Parish leg brings French Quarter loading limits, streetcar corridors, and its own Carnival closures. List every New Orleans stop with a street address and ask the company to show the eastern leg separately in the written total so waiting and detour assumptions are clear.

Lafreniere Park at 3000 Downs Boulevard and the Shrine on Airline on Airline Drive are separate parish-connected venues with their own event parking plans. Ask the event organizer for the current group-vehicle drop point and post-event meeting instructions, because festival footprints inside the park and stadium lot closures can move the legal curb away from the main entrance.

61% of every request we get is for a Saturday, and another 20% for a Friday. That is why Saturday availability is the first thing to ask about. That's what other Metairie planners asked for — your own headcount is what decides it. Count everyone who is actually getting on, then add room for luggage, coolers, instruments or formalwear. Ask each company for the legal seated capacity of the exact vehicle they're offering. Most Metairie requests are for weddings, bachelor parties, and bachelorette parties, and those nights want different amounts of floor space for the same headcount. A bus rated for twenty seats is not twenty comfortable seats in formalwear.

Not necessarily. The images here are representative renderings of a vehicle class, not photos of a bus parked in Metairie. The company covering your route names the assigned vehicle in writing when you book. Before you pay, make sure that writing gives the specific vehicle, its legal seated capacity, the features you're counting on, and what happens if it's unavailable on the day — including whether a replacement could be a different size or class.

Ask in your first message, before you have a quote. Accessible vehicles are a small slice of any local fleet and they need more lead time. Tell them how many passengers use a wheelchair or mobility device, the type and weight, whether anyone can transfer to a seat, and whether you need a lift or a ramp. Ask in writing how the device is secured, what the usable door and interior height are, and how much notice they need. Then check the accessible entrance and loading spot with each venue — Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Boulevard and Veterans Memorial Boulevard Carnival parade route set their own access rules, and the right bus is no help at a door it can't reach.